skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm pretty sure the difference is purely technical.

It's really not - there is a ton of tax law that relies on e.g. the fair market value of hard-to-price assets or if all else fails and a penalty is due, there's an entire section of the CFR on how circumstances surrounding the underpayment can reduce or eliminate the liability.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.6664-4

If you've only ever filed a personal tax return, you're dramatically under-appreciating how complicated business taxes are and how much grey area there really is. Did you know you can pay your 10-year old to work for you as a means to avoid taxes? Try looking up the dollar amount where avoid turns to evade... there isn't one. The amount paid just has to be "reasonable and justifiable" and the work they perform has to be "work necessary to the business".
Thank you for the recommendation! I hadn't heard of Math Academy. "The Challenge: Knowledge Retention" sounds like precisely my problem. I'll try it out.
It works both ways. Sure, when you're looking for more people to join your cult, it helps to get those who are already drawn to you. But you also need to screen out those who would become disappointed quickly, and brainwash the ones that join to ensure continued devotion.
> could only recommend one

TypeScript since everyone ends up learning js anyway. Only need to be warned about the js warts and foot-guns in advance to be less tripped up or shocked by them.

It might be better for some to learn javascript first, then later transition to TypeScript after experiencing runtime errors to appreciate static types which avoids them.

Other languages that allow addition of static typing falls far short of the standard that TypeScript has achieved, both in it its type system and ecosystem.
After making a bad comment, don't come back to check replies.
I think "successful blockchain" means like "successful crime".
> The data is collected even if you don't use the app or hit agree

It’s irrelevant. The matter of the discussion is “cannot drive a car without hitting I agree button”.
Dude come on, saying FSD "routinely" kills people is just delusional (and provably wrong). No idea why Musk just lives rent-free in folks' heads like this. He's just a random douchebag billionaire, there's scores of 'em.
Just because transformer-based architectures might be a dead end (in terms of how far they can take us toward achieving artificial sentience), and the outcome may not be mathematically provable, as this author seems to want it to be, does not mean that the technology isn't useful.

Even during the last AI winter, previous achievements such as Bayesian filtering, proved useful in day to day operation of infrastructures that everyone used. Generative AI is certainly useful as well, and very capable of being used operationally.

It is not without caveats, and the end goals of AI researchers have not been achieved, but why does that lessen the impact or usefulness of what we have? It may be that we can iterate on transformer architecture and get it to the point where it can help us make the next big leap. Or maybe not. But either way, for day to day use, it's here to stay, even if it isn't the primary brain behind new research.

Just remember that the only agency that AI currently has is what we give it. Responsible use of AI doesn't mean "don't use AI", it means, "don't give it responsibility for critical systems that it's ill equipped to deal with". If that's what the author means by "serious applications", then I'm on board, but there are a lot of "serious applications" that aren't human-life-critical, and I think it's fine to use current AI tech on a lot of them.
There have been N volcano eruptions over the history of mankind, why you are taking focus on one and not the other is the political part.
Show HN: KidTales – Generate children's stories with AI
Like a lot of parents, my kids badger me for a bedtime story every night.

We’ve recently started using ChatGPT to come up with them, and after I would ask it to make some images of the story as well.

One night I thought the classic “there should be an app for that”

Only took two days to get the current product built

Current features
- generate an entire story or interactive mode and choose your own adventure
- generated stories you can press play and have it read to you all the way through
- create reusable characters so you can keep a predictable cast between stories

Stack
- Devize (app platform)
- Open AI for AI
- Flux for image generation
- been wanting to try cloudflare workflows as well, so I’m using that to handle the story generation pipeline

The hardest part was getting the images to be consistent between pages. Still not perfect, but honestly my kids like the variation (feels like a surprise on each page)

Would love feedback from any parents!
There are tons of examples of non profit that are run for profit (mostly profit / career advancement of those in charge and their families and friends).

Firefox spend a ton on pet projects to boost careers. Now the core product lost most matketshare and is not what people want.

Wikipedia collects a ton of money and wastes it on everything bar wikipedia (mostly salaries and pet proje ts).

There are those charities where 95% of collected money is spent on own costs and only 5% reaches those in need / the topics that they should solve.

Control over non profits is a joke. People in charge respond to nobody.
> I'm curious to know in what way you think FDR/Keynes got it wrong.

No, you shouldn't be. I'm just a random guy on the internet.

>> But why mess with the price signal? So that you can pick and choose winners and losers.

> Actually it's to regulate/moderate economic activity.

You see how you miss the point while restating my point? It's as though you're trolling me. We've literally said the same thing.

Ah well, I definitely can't read your long post, as well intentioned as it is because it's too long and I've already spent far too many years debating this stuff.

But thanks again. Maybe someone else will indulge you. I just happen to lack the energy and inclination.

It's simply a matter of first principles and values: If you believe in central planning and control of human activity, then you'll choose your adventure that way. If on the other hand, you don't want a cabal choosing winners and losers, and you truly believe in free markets, for money and everything else, then you'll choose a different path.

You and I can pontificate all day about our chosen interpretations of history, but to what end? You've already made up your mind. I used to believe what you do and buried interlocutors under endless citations extolling central banking.

What does debate with strangers accomplish? Nothing really.

Anyway, merry Christmas and happy new year.
well then it's a first. i don't find it that unbelievable that a missile detonates near a plane and damages it but not enough for it to immediately crash...
It doesn't even have to be malicious if you have a common username.
If you are buying in a region entirely located on quicksand, with the intent of selling it off for more before it sinks - yes.
Nevertheless the modern economy has been deliberately designed. Emergent behaviors within it at the highest levels are actively monitored and culled when deemed not cost effective or straight out harmful.
If there was a clear distinction between let-bindings and join points, I would be happy. But there is not - there is this contification process and, rather than proving that their algorithm finds all join points, they just say "it covers most of the ground [in practice]", and then they cite (Section 4) two other papers that suggest contification is undecidable - whether a function returns to a specific continuation or function is a behavioral property, not syntactic. Even if you accept that the dominator-based analysis is optimal, it is a global property. not a local property like in a proper IR. So what I see is a muddy mess.
For something vaguely similar, as in a meticulous way of making a 3D object out of 2D materials with fine details, I recommend the Metal Earth products (puzzles?) as I find them to be quite rewarding. The complexity is probably two orders of magnitude less--think 10-20 hours to assemble the pre-designed and cut pieces.
Because I wanted to see how a new Ubuntu looked. Not to do something useful.
That's a nice feeling, we need a new word for it.

I experience something similar when using certain vintage cameras. I am particularly fond of Zeiss Ikon folders from the 50s, in their own way they approach engineering perfection within their design philosophy (which is very different from the SLRs that came soon after). For me they do seem to be leading me to produce images that I would not normally consider, that require more effort and planning. Thanks for your post, I will carry on ploughing that furrow!

Good luck with the novel, do you have a title yet?
> All these investments are only worth anything if someone buys them from you at a higher value.

The index fund may be over priced but much of the market has actual productivity that leads to dividends eventually, so whether someone will buy that off you is not about the next sucker or betting on an increase in wealth among suckers.
The sales tax loophole made eBay and PayPal into mega corporations as well, especially at various times over the past 2 decades. At one point in time Amazon was growing because of book sales. That era is long gone. Their business model is one of exploitation. Of both employees, local governments, and to some extent their own customers due to their lack of action against counterfeit merchandise sellers.
Google has to given a court order. Or is that unachievable?
Any proofs? Everywhere articles says that accident was during joint exercise.
Sean Carroll has a bluesky thread on this: https://bsky.app/profile/seanmcarroll.bsky.social/post/3lec7...
History is written by the victors, though. And no one is omniscient. It's a bit hard to say "just the progression of discoveries" as if every voice is equal.

And this isn't just about governmental politics. the dispute over the inventor of the light bulb is a big example.
Katana uses LuaJIT quite extensively for user-side OpScripts, and previously both DNeg and MPC (they've largely moved on to newer tech now) had quite a lot of Lua code...
It requires someone to at some point remember that "Hey when I was a kid 20 years ago the solstice was on December 22 but now it's on December 17, what happened?" and then go looking at historical records to generate a trend line with a slope of 0.25 days / year. The measurement doesn't have to be at one point.
I have a friend who works at Taxfyle and they cater to single-member LLCs and newly formed businesses. They seem like a great fit for you if you need taxes and bookkeeping done. Check out their website: https://www.taxfyle.com/bookkeeping
I find this idea that shame is the proper course of action, as if the last decade has demonstrated any substantial results.

If you want socially beneficial behaviors, you need rules, regulations _and_ enforcement.

Shame is not going to do anything of merit. As long as there's overwhelming discrepencies, there'll always be people applying to these jobs.
I went through a situation similar to yours, and encountered an additional discouraging factor: YouTube seemed to threaten to take down my channel entirely if my appeal was to be rejected. There was also no real option for "the person making the Content ID claim obviously doesn't own the copyright to the work in question" (in this case, the famous "yeah! woo!" a.k.a. "think break" sample; the Content ID match was from what seemed to be a remix of "It Takes Two"), so I was at the mercy of whatever opaque process YouTube deemed fit to review my case - and was a bit spooked when it came to potentially losing my whole channel (and who knows what impact that'd have on my broader Google account).

Thankfully, I was able to find the contact info for the Content ID provider in question - and within a day of emailing them they pulled the Content ID claim, noting that the customer of theirs who uploaded that think-break-containing song did so in violation of the company's ToS (which specifically forbids uploading music containing common samples like that for this exact reason). It ended up being a happy ending, but it still left a sour taste in my mouth w.r.t. YouTube's policies and practices when it comes to Content ID and copyright claims in general.
Of course they can. It doesn’t even make sense to consider that microsoft/ie matter.
There lies the rub. All it takes is a rumor that these rocket engines are secretly being used for <insert collective fear du jour> to kill support for the project.
My example complied perfectly with Liskov's substitution principle. Much better than examples like "a JSON parser is a parser". The system I worked on had perfect semantic subtyping.

Liskov substitution won't save you, and I'm quite tired of people saying it will. The problem of spaghetti structures is fundamental to what makes inheritance distinct from other kinds of polymorphism.

Just say no to inheritance.
Also pantsir is a shitty AA weapon. Like everything designed in modern Russia.
It's not just about those whose money is at stake. The whole point of having non-profits as an option for corporations in the first place is to encourage things that broadly benefit society. Effectively turning a non-profit into a for-profit company is directly counter to that, and it means that society as a whole was defrauded when non-profit status was originally claimed with its associated perks.
Nope, i'm saying that humans are political beings, as aristoteles defined it, and any human action is by itself political.

History in itself tries (or should try) to be objective and avoid the bias you mention, but that doesn't make it less political by any mean.
This seems very similar to Anki; is this what Anki’s algorithm is based on?

I’ve been using Anki for a while and can confirm it work extremely well

I’ve also created an open source extension for Raycast as well which makes Anki even more convenient to use:

https://www.raycast.com/anton-suprun/anki
The first ride I ever had in a Tesla, the driver tried to show off the different “mood” settings. He was trying to demo the “romantic” settings(not sure what it’s called) and we found there was a bug that caused one of the buttons to make fart noises every couple of presses.

So, yeah, glad they continue to invest in mind blowing tech.
This looks like a joke to me.
Sure. Good accounting and disaster prevention from VW. The matter of the discussion proves that the decision was correct.
> the DMCA counternotice process requires the person filing the counternotice to provide their full name and address so they can be served if the rightsholder decides to sue them.

It's even worse than that: the DMCA counternotice also requires the person filing the counternotice to agree to the jurisdiction of the USA courts, even if they live somewhere else. I think many people would be reluctant to take that additional legal risk.
Would that be Joshua Dean or John Barnett?
DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years
I find it interesting that we're in a post truth society now, and it may not mean what I think it means. While considering your last paragraph I realized that post truth doesn't necessarily mean absence of fact.

It's simply people trying to write history while living it instead of waiting for it to actually be history or relying on experts to maintain an historical account. Facts don't matter. What gets remembered is all that matters, really.

Fascinating.
We actually attacked Canada first in 1812 and attacked residential property up there. The British came into Washington DC and destroyed Federal Stuff but they left the civilian stuff mostly alone.
"Yes, the United States attacked first in the War of 1812, by declaring war on Great Britain and invading Canada on June 18, 1812, marking the official start of the conflict."

There are also Anti-Federalist papers as well.
https://history.nycourts.gov/about_period/antifederalist-pap...
> It was also revealed that the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) had, in October 2022, submitted a case against Newag regarding the abovementioned software manipulation incidents to the prosecutor's office in Nowy Sącz, which initially downplayed the incident until said findings publicly came to light, after which, the investigation was taken over by the regional prosecutor's office in Kraków on suspicion of crimes committed under Article 269 §1 and Article 286 §1 of the Polish Penal Code.

> The Sejm's [Sejm is "the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland"] Parliamentary Committee for Combating Transport Exclusion subsequently convened three hearings regarding the abovementioned allegations on 17 January, 27 February and 26 March 2024, whose participants included representatives of the Dragon Sector team, Newag, railway operators and members of the Sejm.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newag#2023_revelation_of_softw...

I could not find any later updates in polish media.
The conditions of possibility of that extraodinary technical development are political. cf Marx, Capital vol 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster
By my rough calculations about 18 milliseconds of time dilation per day assuming 690,000 km/h - 430,000 mph.
Does increasing the speed via repeated gravity assists improve the odds of the probe surviving during closer approaches to the sun?
As long as you disable the minimap in game. Which is the correct way to play open world games anyway. Other ways you look at the arrow instead of looking at the environment.
Isn't the idea that AGI could replace a bunch of labor allowing us to help more poor and increase net positive vibes or just have more leisure time?

Obviously the way our economy and society are structured that's not what will happen, but I don't think that has much to do with tools and their tendency to increase our efficiency and output.

Put another way, there are powerful benefits from AGI that we will squander because our system sucks. That is not a critique against AGI, that is a critique of our system and will continue to show up. It's already a huge point of conversation in our collective dialogue.
None of your examples are legally profit though.
Also to SSH into a VM you need to setup a second network card and to do this you need at least log into a text console.
The choice of which cities they document and what they cite is definitely political. For example, what city do you think of with that description? It's probably Pompeii and not Herculaneum, let alone Cuicuilco, Vestmannaeyjar, or NA 860.
Visualizing Representations: Deep Learning and Human Beings (2015)
I’m surprised this article merits 700+ comments. Why y’all engage with such drivel?

It’s well established that disruptive technologies don’t appear to have any serious applications, at first. But they get better and better, and eventually they take over.

PG talks about how new technologies seem like toys at first, the whole Innovator Dilemma is about this…so well established within this community.

Just ignore it and figure out where the puck is moving toward.
After reading this paper a bit more it seems that the it focuses on simple scenes and simple materials only, which a bit unfortunate. This is exactly where ray reordering overhead is going to be the most problematic.

They also do talk about the potential of ray reordering for complex scenes and complex materials in the paper (because reordering helps with shading divergence since "all" reordered rays are pretty much going to hit the same material).

So maybe ray reordering isn't dead just yet. Probably would have to try that at some point...
>The “everything is political” concept has been a very successful propaganda campaign, particularly in the US.

Everyone thinking politics is only about 2 parties and some controversial thinkg to even utter is the successful propaganda.

>the academic study of government and the state.

That's all it is. unless you are truly independent and in the wild, it's hard to say anyone isn't influenced by politics. Hence, biases. Bias in this lens is a byproduct of your environment, managed by politics.
Show HN: Tysm, a Rust crate for using ChatGPT with Structured Outputs
Hi HN! This Christmas I made `tysm`, a rust crates which simplifies using ChatGPT with Structured Outputs. Essentially you just tell it the rust type you want the output to conform to, and it handles creating the JSON Schema, passing it to ChatGPT's chat-completions API, and deserializing the response. Structured Outputs are very useful because they guarantee that the response will conform to whatever type you expect. I'm already finding my crate very useful since I love using Structured Outputs but I hate writing JSON Schemas myself.

Technical details for rust heads: To generate the JSON Schema, it uses an unreleased version of the `schemars` crate. (Hopefully it will be released soon and then I won't have to put up this disclaimer anymore.) For deserialization, it uses `serde`.
One thing I thought recently, is that a large amount of work is currently monitoring and correcting human activity. Corporate law, accounting, HR and services etc. If we have AGI that is forced to be compliant, then all these businesses disappear. Large companies are suddenly made redundant, regardless of whether they replace their staff with AI or not.
How good is that? Anyone with an o1 Pro account tested that? Is that chain-of-reasoning thing really working?

Here are some evaluations.[1] Most focus on question-answering. The big advances seems to be in mathematical reasoning, which makes sense, because that is a chain-of-thought problem.
Although that doesn't help on Blocks World.

[1] https://benediktstroebl.github.io/reasoning-model-evals/
Or in Germany, if you live in the village, put up a 60 sign by your driveway and when confronted just say someone is having their 60th birthday… Germans for whatever reason like putting up a speed limit signs by their driveway when celebrating birthdays.
People didn't switch because of stability problems with gold standard. That's just propaganda and fiat apologetics. As a matter of fact gold standard seen fastest and most stable growth in the history of human kind. Gold is hard to transport, secure and divide so ledgers were used instead which allowed government to just end goal standards to fund WW1 efforts, which also shows the magnitude of destruction and statist largese this enabled.

I recommend Broken Money for history and analysis how it came to be that things are how they are.
Again, the absence of a negative consequence at the time cannot be used as evidence something was actually fine to do, only that it was possible to get away with. That's regardless of whether it was actually truly fine or not.

If a new automated speed camera catches you on a road you've been speeding on for 7 years it doesn't mean speeding used to be fine it means you'll now receive consequences for doing things which were never fine to do! It also doesn't mean the speed limit always used to be the current value or anything like that. This is because "when regular enforcement began" has no causal relation one way or the other about what used to be fine or whether that was different than what's fine now. It is only an effect, one where "what was fine changed" is only one possible cause.
> People are routinely killed by falling bullets.

Do you have a citation for that? I can't find any numbers on people getting hit by falling bullets, let alone fatalities. Things let celebratory gunfire don't seem to be comparable since people tend to congregate outside for celebrations resulting in larger groups of potential unintentional targets.
I'm new to ClickHouse. Why is this necessary? Isn't there a native way to do ClickHouse migrations?
It seems much cheaper, safer legally and more easily scalable to simply synthesize programs. Most code out there is shit anyway, and the code you can get by the GB especially so.